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Battle of the Ancre. Troops of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire) Regiment cooking their 'Pork and Beans' ration in dixies. Near St. Pierre Divion, November 1916.
12 December
On this day – 12 December

1914 (Saturday)

Western Front Galicia: Austro-German counter-offensive from Hungary begins; the Dukla Pass carried and the Russians at Cracow threatened.
Southern Front  ▶  Serbia: Austrians utterly defeated, re-cross the Drina.  ▶  Bosnia: Vishegrad taken by Montenegrins.
Political  ▶  Great Britain: Arthur Balfour gives speech in Colston Hall, Bristol, in support of the War Office appeal for 3,000 more men.[1]

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